Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Quality Improvement Fund - Improving Access to Dental Services for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (QIF-DNDD)
One-time HRSA funding for Health Center Program award recipients with active H80 awards to pilot evidence-based and innovative approaches that increase access to preventive and other dental services for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and to train health center staff to support those services.
⚑ Eligible applicants are limited to Health Center Program award recipients with an active H80 award; public universities are not eligible unless they hold that award. · Funds are for implementation/pilot access to dental services and workforce skill-building, not general research. · One-time investment; award ceiling $2,000,000.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The purpose of fiscal year (FY) 2026 Quality Improvement Fund: Improving Access to Dental Services for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (QIF-DNDD) is to increase access to preventive dental and additional dental services and improve dental health outcomes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including children with autism spectrum and developmental disorders. Through this one-time investment, health centers will build upon existing evidence-based models to pilot innovative approaches to increase access to dental services for children with NDDs, advance the skills and knowledge of your workforce to support access to services, and improve patient outcomes.Applicants for this funding must propose project work plans that include:Specific evidence-based models and innovative approaches that will increase access to dental services and improve patient outcomes for children with NDDs.Plans to advance the skills and knowledge of the health center workforce to support access to dental services for children with NDDs.
Eligibility
You can apply if you are a Health Center Program award recipient with an active H80 award. A Health Center Program (H80) award is funded under §330(e) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act.
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
12/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a health-services grant focused on improving dental access and workforce capacity for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, which is relevant to public health but not to IPPRA’s core research mission. It is primarily a service/improvement program rather than a research, evaluation, or survey opportunity, and eligibility is restricted to Health Center Program H80 award recipients, so a public university would not be eligible.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 12 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a health-services grant focused on improving dental access and workforce capacity for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, which is relevant to public health but not to IPPRA’s core research mission. It is primarily a service/improvement program rather than a research, evaluation, or survey opportunity, and eligibility is restricted to Health Center Program H80 award recipients, so a public university would not be eligible. |
| 2026-07-06 | 15 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a public health access and workforce-improvement grant focused on dental services for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. IPPRA’s health communication and behavioral-intervention expertise is relevant in concept, but the opportunity is restricted to active Health Center Program H80 award recipients, so a public university like OU could not apply directly or as a named lead. |